Species Carystoterpa fusiformis Hamilton & Morales, 1992

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• Carystoterpa fusiformis Hamilton, K.G.A. & Morales, C.F. 1992. Cercopidae (Insecta: Homoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 25: 1-35 [14].

  Type data:

   Holotype NZAC ♀ (coll.: G. Kuschel, 7.xi.1967), Mt Pitt, 250 m, Norfolk Island.

 

Introduction

This species is endemic to Norfolk Island. All other species in the genus are found in New Zealand except for a single species in New Caledonia.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Adult female with body and tegmina pallid. Head strongly produced, with crown 0.75x as long as pronotum on midline. Tegmen 3x as long as broad, parabolically produced to apex, extending beyond clavi by a distance equal to their width at this point. Male unknown. Length 8.8 mm; width across eyes 2.4 mm. (Hamilton & Morales 1992)

 

Diagnosis References

Hamilton, K.G.A. & Morales, C.F. 1992. Cercopidae (Insecta: Homoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 25: 1-35 [14]

 

History of changes

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